The capability to boot to whatever screen you want, i.e. desktop on your computer without having to switch to it on each boot and a normal Start Menu. I believe I saw these as being included with Windows 9.

As long as Stardock is around so I can make it look like Windows 7, or real close, I could care less what they do with Windows 9. If Stardock cannot undo/modify what Microsoft stupidly creates, then skinning is doomed and I would not want to have anything to do with it.

The capability to boot to whatever screen you want, i.e. desktop on your computer without having to switch to it on each boot and a normal Start Menu. I believe I saw these as being included with Windows 9.

I would like better voice control built into every aspect. I love how Google has integrated voice into all the important tasks for me on my Samsung S4, and it works great. I'd love to easily use my voice on my desktop. It works now, but is very clunky and many times gets what I say wrong.

The Start Menu with the Metro tiles on the side is ugly. Why not have the tile menu function the way the desktop functions in Windows 8, just the other direction? That is, it's a program available from the desktop Start Menu that gets you into the tile mode.

By the way, my wife's new HP notebook boots directly to the desktop. It's our only Win 8 machine and I have not yet installed the Object Desktop 8 tools so I wonder how HP is accomplishing that. Is that registry setting?

The capability to boot to whatever screen you want, i.e. desktop on your computer without having to switch to it on each boot and a normal Start Menu. I believe I saw these as being included with Windows 9.

You can already do this in W8...

I'm still using Windows 7 but I thought MS dropped putting the Start Menu in it's last update to Windows 8 and I was under the impression that Windows 8 still default booted to the Modern/Metro screen and you could then switch to the Desktop.

Would like to see an option for the USER to pick the kind of shell they want for the OS so that both parties are happywindows7 users will have the startmenu back,while windows8 users can get the windows 8 style startmenu. A one click solution would be nice to quickly switch between those styles.Most important:I would liketo be not forcedto upgrade windows8.1 to windows Threshold aka Windows10 because I don’t want to have the old/NEW startmenu10 back unless they have an option like mentioned above. Edit: turns out it has

Would like to see some improvements on the personalisation also.Aero and Blur -an extra option to choose to install that would be nice.I hope they will make some improvements to Ad-Hoc .

A simpler safe mode boot function without activating F8 or checking boxes.( an extra option besides restart maybe ? ) something better than shift restarting...that’s all the rest was smooth in windows8 already cant wait to see what actually has been improved